Fewer power cuts are likely in India this summer after a surge in output at Coal India (COAL.NS) helped generators amass record stocks, a turnaround for Narendra Modi who had to battle a power crisis within months of becoming prime minister last May. Fast-track mine approvals, tighter production...

Lessons Learned from Down Under Carbon taxes and renewable mandates drive electricity prices up. The experience in Australia offers a dramatic example. Australia elected a new government to repeal the Carbon Tax in 2014, which was estimated to cost the economy more than $20 million a day....

There appears to be an outbreak of “cautious optimism” in the Asian commodities sector. It was easy to lose track of the number of times the phrase popped up in presentations and conversations at four major commodities conferences in the region in the past two weeks. However,...

At a time when multilateral funders such as the World Bank have stopped supporting coal-fuelled power projects, Japanese lending institutions and banks are willing to help India’s quest for providing power to people still living without electricity. Of India’s installed power...

After working in the resources industry for over 20 years, Yancoal boss Reinhold Schmidt acknowledges conditions for coal miners are among the toughest he has seen. “The whole commodity space is quite depressed and in the coal industry all producers whether you’re large or small...

Berdasarkan data Badan Narkotika Nasional dan POLRI 2013, jumlah kasus Narkoba di wilayah Kalimantan Tengah pada tahun 2010 sebanyak  732 kasus. Angka ini termasuk dalam 10 besar provinsi dengan kasus narkoba terbanyak tahun 2010.Kondisi memprihatinkan ini menggerakkan Adaro, dalam hal ini,...

Japan is continuing to re-embrace coal to make up for its lack of nuclear energy, with plans for another power station released bringing the number of new coal-fired plants announced this year to seven. Utilities in Japan are eager to take advantage of coal’s relative cheapness to give...

Wood Mackenzie said Tuesday that coal is facing increasing competition from gas in the power sector. Coal has dominated as the fuel of choice in Asia, even in the gas-centric power markets of Southeast Asia since 2010. In recent years, it has been assumed that coal will remain the most economical...

BEIJING: China produced 240 million tonnes of coal in holiday-shortened February, down 7.7 per cent from a year ago, an industry website said on Wednesday, hurt by orchestrated output cuts in major regions. Csteelnews.com, a website run by the official China Metallurgical News, said that output...

There have been rumors the last few months. And last week we got confirmation of a major shift underway in one of the world’s biggest bulk commodities. That’s thermal coal. Where it looks as if the world’s largest supplier — Indonesia — is on the verge of a collapse in...